FREE BOOKS

Author's List




PREV.   NEXT  
|<   35   36   37   38   39   40   41   42   43   44   45   46   47   48   49   50   >>  
Brigade remained all night in the demesne of Harvey Hay, one of the Rebel Chiefs: next day we returned to Houlet again, where we encamped for two days. The scouting parties killed more after the different engagements than what fell in Battle--many of their Commanders, were taken and hanged. We have suffered much from lying on the roads and ditches rolled in our blankets, I have almost lost my hearing, but am content when the good old cause triumphs. P. S. At Vinegar-hill we killed men of 70 Years old--we rescued three Officers of the Antrim Militia, and twelve Privates of the same regiment: yesterday we hanged two of them for endeavouring to vote away the lives of two of the above Officers and Soldiers when prisoners. Yours truly, W. H. G. The following letter was written by a sufferer in the Wexford Rebellion, while in possession of the Rebels--it fully corroborates the truth of the atrocities stated in the Narrative by Charles Jackson, printed, and now selling by the Publisher hereof.--price 6dh. LETTER X. WEXFORD, MAY 1st, 1799. _Sir_, Altho' I have not the happiness of being personally acquainted with you, at the request of your Friend, Mr. W--s, it affords me pleasure to have it in my power to send you a copy of an _acurate detail_ of the effects of the late dreadful Rebellion, as it respected this part of the Kingdom, written by an intimate and fellow sufferer with me and transmitted to Dublin, for publication in July 1798. On Friday evening the 25th of May, about 9 o'clock, the North Cork Militia then quartered here, with the Wexford Yeomen Cavalry and Infantry were ordered under arms, in consequence of an alarm that the Insurgents were rising in the neighbourhood of Camolin, in this County; and we continued under arms the whole of that night. On Saturday orders arrived here from Dublin-Castle to the High Sheriff, to apprehend B. B. Harvey, J. Colclough of Ballyteigue, and Edward Fitzgerald of New-park; and they were committed to goal on Saturday evening and Sunday morning. Early on Sunday morning the 27th of May, an express arrived here that the day before an engagement took place between a party of the Camolin Cavalry, commanded by Lieutenant Buckey, and a large body of the Rebels, that the Lieutenant was killed, but that they had repulsed the Rebels; that they were then (Sunday morning) in great force in the neighbourhood of Oulard, burning the houses of different Protestant I
PREV.   NEXT  
|<   35   36   37   38   39   40   41   42   43   44   45   46   47   48   49   50   >>  



Top keywords:

Rebels

 

Sunday

 
morning
 

killed

 

Cavalry

 
Militia
 

Wexford

 

Officers

 

evening

 

Rebellion


Dublin
 

sufferer

 
neighbourhood
 

Camolin

 

arrived

 

Saturday

 

written

 
hanged
 

Harvey

 

Lieutenant


Friday

 
Friend
 

affords

 

transmitted

 

request

 
fellow
 

Kingdom

 
intimate
 
detail
 

acurate


effects
 

respected

 

dreadful

 

publication

 

pleasure

 

County

 
engagement
 

express

 

committed

 

commanded


Buckey

 

Oulard

 

burning

 
houses
 
Protestant
 

repulsed

 

consequence

 

Insurgents

 

rising

 

acquainted